On 03/03/2012 01:51 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote:
Hi all,
I have a need to examine and manipulate certain aspects of a class
symbol table. I can do this:
you claim you have this need but given your skill level, i wonder if
that is actually a real need. please state the larger problem you are
trying to solve with this solution. likely there is a much easier and
better way to do this.
manual introspection of a class doesn't make much sense. are you looking
for a specific method? that is done with UNIVERSAL::can. are you looking
for global variables? that isn't done much and so i doubt you need to do
that.
...but what I'd like to do is dereference the object itself to get the
class, as there will be times I won't know what class an object belongs
to. Here is some pseudocode of what I'm trying unsuccessfully to achieve:
my $dog = Animal->new();
foreach my $entry ( keys %{ ref $dog }:: ){
...
}
that will get you every symbol (glob) in the class. you still would need
to examine each glob to find a sub or variable or whatver. again, i say
this is highly unlikely to be needed or what you really want.
uri
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